Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Circles necklace

I have been developing some new ideas for making textile jewellery. This has partly been due to developing exzema on my right hand which makes wet felting difficult. I have a stash of wool pullovers that have shrunk in the washing machine. So I started to cut them up into circles of varying sizes and layer them together with some offcuts of velvet which had been lying around for a couple of years and then I embroidered flowers onto them. I was going to make them into flower brooches but then I started placing them next to each other and liked how they looked and so this necklace came into being. I have photographed it both outside and indoors to try and show the the textures of the piece. It is a very slow process, so I have also made some with less embroidery which you can see on my flickr page.

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"Mandy Prowse studied painting and printmaking at Maidstone College of Art. She explores natural and human forms and the interconnectedness of all things. Themes in her work relate to birth, mortality and metamorphosis. Her altered books are minimalistic and organic combining a modern aesthetic with an almost Victorian touch. If you told me these books were 100 years old I wouldn’t think twice about it.”
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